Concept Papers
Building Networks and Social Capital for Trust and Collective Intelligence
Written by Zhen Goh
Informal self-formed networks have been recognised to carry more intrinsic trust and respect than formal networks. This conforms to the truth that knowledge can only be volunteered, not conscripted. Such…
Read moreComplexity, Emergence & Importance of Failure
Written by Zhen Goh
When seeking to solve problems, Snowden (2004) recognises that we have a tendency to either look for “best-practice” type strategies and imitate them, and/or stop exploring solutions too early. We…
Read moreContextually Appropriate Perspectives
Written by Zhen Goh
The Cognitive Edge approach highlight the importance of recognising that multiple perspectives exist within groups however homogeneous in appearance. The ability to draw out these varying perspectives, and provide a…
Read moreEmergent Processes : Overcoming Attributional Errors
Written by Zhen Goh
Individuals often partake in simplistic and reductionist ways of attributing causality to events, and/or people’s role and positions within different situations. When people strive to find explanations and reasons for…
Read moreNarrative & The Ethnographic Inquiry
Written by Zhen Goh
The Cognitive Edge approach borrows features from the Anthropological method of the ethnographic interview, where researchers seek to understand the informant’s culture, and how their cultural universe informs meaning, through…
Read moreNarrative Patterning : Alternate History and Fragmented Narrative
Written by Zhen Goh
The use of narrative techniques in management can reveal both the patterns of an organisation, and are in turn the means by which it can be patterned. As noted by…
Read moreRitualisation & Game-Playing
Written by Zhen Goh
Ritualisation and Game-Playing environments possess the propensity for ritualised public expressions of dissent to reaffirm and sustain, or change the existing social order. In particular, ‘rituals of status reversal’ bears…
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